98Z5V Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Yep, $7 a gallon for milk - brace yourselves. It'll happen in about 73 hours, if our politicians don't do something.Research it. <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robocop1051 Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 What do you care, you Silk drinking hippie! <lmao> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Wait 'til the food stampers get wind of that.Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasprite Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Wait 'til the food stampers get wind of that.JonThey'll just trade it for beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaDuce Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 What do you care, you Silk drinking hippie! <lmao>Uuuuuh... you DO know why California cows are so happy, right?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 like our 7$ peanut butter this summer??? its all a poop show, theyll work somthing out tomorrow and obama will be the savior once again........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 He couldn't lead his way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. It's gonna aggravate the hell out of me to see him take all the credit, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 He couldn't lead his way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. It's gonna aggravate the hell out of me to see him take all the credit, though.Heck, he'll probably give himself a big pat on the back and a pay raise.... :hornet: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 He couldn't lead his way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. It's gonna aggravate the hell out of me to see him take all the credit, though.OH i know!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 It's criminal that no one in office works for the average American anymore. >:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Here's a local Iowa story on this mess - it just shows you how much the Govt Fucktards have NOT been doing their jobs. They ALL need to go - good ones, bad ones, get 'em all out. Start fresh, with people that realize that we don't work for them, and they indeed DO work for the citizens... Read on:DES MOINES, Iowa -- The new year could bring new worries for American consumers: Milk prices could double or triple.Without a new Farm Bill by Tuesday, milk prices by law would revert to rules set in 1949, which could send milk prices soaring. Those pricing laws, complete with inflation adjusters, have the potential to send prices as high as $8 a gallon from the present $3.50 a gallon national average by as soon as February.But milk producers and processors believe action will be taken to avert the price spike.Underscoring the nervousness around a potentially hot consumer issue, President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to at least pass an extension of the current Farm Bill, according to Politico.The 64-year-old Farm Bill gives the secretary of agriculture the authority to step in to adjust prices, which Tom Vilsack is expected to do.Vilsack said on Dec. 20 that he and his agency are "prepared to do whatever it is legally obliged to do" in the absence of a new farm bill."You certainly wouldn't think that the secretary of agriculture would let the price of milk double," said Miriam Erickson Brown, chief executive officer of the Anderson-Erickson Dairy in Des Moines. The company is one of the largest dairy processors in the Midwest.While a giant leap in prices might seem like a windfall for both producers and processors, Brown and others say that wouldn't be so."We don't want a big spike in prices," Brown said, noting that per capita milk consumption has been flat in recent years because of what she said was an undue consumer focus on fat and calories at the expense of the nutritional value of milk.Chris Hoeger, vice president for procurement for Swiss Valley Farms in Davenport, Iowa, said a major price increase would make U.S. milk uncompetitive in world markets and open the door to imports."We would continue to lose market share in the U.S. as most consumers will not spend or be able to spend $8 for a gallon of milk," Hoeger said.Dairy producer Joe Lyon, who runs a family operation near Tama, Iowa, scoffed at the idea that prices would be allowed to more than double."It's just a lot of talk to scare people into passing a Farm Bill," he said.For all its wholesome image, the politics and economics of milk have proved to be complicated.Unlike virtually all other agricultural commodities, which long ago were sprung from government controls to the free market, milk prices still are controlled by what are known as "market orders" issued monthly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.The market orders the USDA sent to producers and retailers a week ago guarantee that milk prices won't rise in January."We know that our prices won't rise on Jan. 1, and if anything, might go down a bit through the month," said Ruth Comer of Hy-Vee Inc., the West Des Moines-based grocery chain."There's been some publicity, and we've had questions about it, but we've assured customers there won't be an increase after New Year's," she said.Lyon, the Tama dairy producer, said milk is heavily regulated for "good reasons, including health and to make sure it is affordable to consumers.""It is fashionable to criticize regulations. But regulations aren't always a bad thing," he said.Processors like Brown see the matter differently. In April, Brown testified before a congressional committee, urging that price controls be removed from milk.The International Dairy Foods Association, representing processors, opposes a new program included in the 2012 Farm Bill that's designed to control milk prices. Instead, the group said, the Farm Bill should emulate the programs for other commodities and focus on providing safety-net programs, such as revenue insurance, typically used to protect growers of corn, soybeans and wheat.Disagreement between producers and processors was one of many reasons Congress was unable to pass a new Farm Bill before the November election and is thought to be unlikely to pass one before the new year. One of the key disagreements: The House wanted deeper cuts in spending, including in food stamps, than the Senate approved in its bill.Another great article on it:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/thanks-to-congresss-incompetence-milk-prices-are-about-to-double/266692/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Yeah.Then there's the AZ dairy who said "This system is crap!", started his own distribution network with his own trucks, and was having retailers sell his milk for $1/gallon.Until the feds sued him.Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 I still remember milk in glass containers,and when it went up from .70 cents everyone was :o. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 House and Senate Agricultural Committees managed to get something right - they extended the 2008 Farm Bill - only by one year, though - so milk prices won't go batshit crazy in two days. <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainTrain Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 I read this and then I start to feel better about Feinstein's AWB bill getting dumped in the crapper at the Capitol. These people dragged their feet on a bipartisan farm bill. Lets not forget about the Fiscal Cliff, Budget, Entitlement Reforms, etc. I am starting to wonder what bills get passed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 I am starting to wonder what bills get passed.Just take a look at the past 45 years. The ones that get passed are bipartisan.If it advances the personal interests of politicians and their money contributors it gets passed.If it suppresses the freedom of the common man/proleteriat in hopes of shoring up their elitist positions, then it gets passed.Anything else is what gets headlines and bickering for years and years, turning into decades of inaction.Mind you, the 1994 AWB was NOT debated very long.Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Mind you, the 1994 AWB was NOT debated very long.JonNope - that poop was swift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Imagine that. When those bone-heads up on the hill actually want to move, they can move swiftly.Rat bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 They sure didn't fcuk around a couple days ago, when it was time for their own pay raises... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 And as a group, I bet that they all thought that they deserved it......instead of the pink slips that the rest of us KNOW that they should really be getting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Everyone over there in that back-filled swamp is just getting as much milk as possible, before the udder goes dry.Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Well, I can't believe it's already that time of the year again... I also can't believe that $4 BILLION dollars is only 5% of the food stamp program, annually. That give the program a total of $80 BILLION dollars... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/farm-bill-stalemate-could-send-milk-prices-skyward/?intcmp=latestnews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Milk 7 bucks a gallon....what about beer? its already up to 8 bucks a six pack for the good swill :) Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imschur Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Hell Im sticker shocked at the price of fresh produce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Milk here is $2.50.So far.$8.00 for good swill :eek: :hethan: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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